1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,880 I'm gonna let you pick this week. What are you feeling like? Remember? Because I added a lot. 2 00:00:04,880 --> 00:00:07,640 Are we feeling like an update? How's that looking? 3 00:00:07,640 --> 00:00:09,840 Come on, let me check. Yeah, let's do an update. 4 00:00:09,840 --> 00:00:12,560 Sometimes my updates are quite random. 5 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:14,560 Let's go with this one. This one's Vice. 6 00:00:14,560 --> 00:00:18,080 February 12th, 2024. We're still getting updated. 7 00:00:18,080 --> 00:00:22,400 It's from a little bit ago because we're now on the other side of the year. 8 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:26,800 This one is titled Neo-Nazi Music Show's Return to Europe. 9 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:33,440 I love Vice. I'm gonna love the return of the Neo-Nazis to be much every facet of life recently, 10 00:00:33,440 --> 00:00:35,600 which is what we're updating. So let's update it. 11 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:40,800 Two major Neo-Nazi music concerts will be held in France and Italy over the coming week. 12 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:43,520 So that's long gone. Long gone. 13 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:49,440 And what extremism experts are warning will be a significant networking and fundraising event 14 00:00:49,440 --> 00:00:51,440 for the European extreme right. 15 00:00:51,440 --> 00:00:56,960 French concert Call of Terror is scheduled to be held in an unannounced location in the 16 00:00:56,960 --> 00:01:01,840 southeastern Auvergne-Rhone-Alps region. They called it a... 17 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:05,680 Yeah. Sorry. Can you say it again? Just so that I'm sure. 18 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:08,160 Call of Terror. Okay, Call of Terror. Okay. 19 00:01:08,160 --> 00:01:13,280 It really sounds like a death metal concert, does it not? 20 00:01:13,280 --> 00:01:16,240 It sounds like they're plotting a terrorist attack. 21 00:01:16,240 --> 00:01:19,680 A little bit of that as well. Like how I go with metal. 22 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:22,560 You go with terrorist attack. 23 00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:28,240 February 24th, while an Italian gig called Hot Shower will be held somewhere in Northern 24 00:01:28,240 --> 00:01:33,760 Italy three weeks later. The event marks the return of the concerts built by their organizers 25 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:39,120 as festivals in both established fixtures in Europe's underground extreme right music scene. 26 00:01:39,120 --> 00:01:43,520 The first time since they were interrupted by the coronavirus pandemic. 27 00:01:43,520 --> 00:01:44,800 The gigs will feature some... 28 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:49,600 I'm kind of surprised that the coronavirus could stop a Neo-Nazi... 29 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:52,800 No kidding. I would have to agree with you on that. 30 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:58,160 Gigs will feature some of the biggest names in the explicitly Neo-Nazi musical genre 31 00:01:58,160 --> 00:02:03,440 known as National Socialist Black Metal or NSBM. Interesting. Okay, I was... 32 00:02:03,440 --> 00:02:05,360 I have to look this up in hell. 33 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:12,240 Genres racist ideology is made clear on the poster for Hot Shower circulated on social media, 34 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:17,120 which features a cartoon rat winter from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles wearing a Jewish 35 00:02:17,120 --> 00:02:19,840 star of David along with a hooded clansman. 36 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:24,320 Oh, please stop comparing Jews to vermin. It's insulting to the vermin. 37 00:02:24,320 --> 00:02:28,640 And quote read one comment beneath the poster on the gigs Facebook page. 38 00:02:28,640 --> 00:02:34,560 Worston Hendricks, musicologist of the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, 39 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:39,680 who specializes in far right music subcultures told Vice News that the concerts are two of the 40 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:43,200 major events in Europe, Neo-Nazi musical underground. 41 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:48,960 Both festivals are of enormous importance for the international NSBM scene because they've 42 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:53,840 already established a certain tradition and because the lineups usually feature high caliber 43 00:02:53,840 --> 00:02:56,560 Nazi bands. He said, this is disturbing. 44 00:02:56,560 --> 00:03:00,080 At the lining call of terror, which is being held for the fifth time, 45 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:05,440 is veteran Polish band Graeblant described by Hendricks as one of the stars of the 46 00:03:05,440 --> 00:03:12,400 international NSBM scene. Armed in war cloth in 1991, the group has had Alpen's band in Germany 47 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:18,640 and appears on an anti-difamation league list of hate music bands. Groups founder, who uses the 48 00:03:18,640 --> 00:03:24,880 stage name Rob Darkin told an interviewer in 2006 that most people would describe his politics as a 49 00:03:24,880 --> 00:03:30,240 stream right wing national socialist convictions. Other acts on the call of terror lineup include 50 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:35,280 Italian band SPQR, a phrase referring to the Roman Republic, which has been promoting its 51 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:40,720 appearances at the festival with its latest music video, which features footage of Ukrainian soldiers 52 00:03:40,720 --> 00:03:46,480 in combat and is dedicated to far right Ukrainian fighting units, including Azaz Brigade. 53 00:03:48,320 --> 00:03:54,960 There we go. Right sector in the Russian Volunteer Corps. Also on the bill was Polish NSN-SBM 54 00:03:54,960 --> 00:04:01,760 band Atal, which like SPQR was very well known within the scene. France was known for having one 55 00:04:01,760 --> 00:04:07,600 of the strongest and best network NSBM scenes in Europe alongside strongholds further east like 56 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:13,760 Poland, Ukraine and Russia. Wow. That goes on and on and on as Vice does. They're great for 57 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:19,120 reporting this stuff. I was feeling like an update because we've been covering the rise of Nazis. 58 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:26,160 The growing rise of Nazis. I believe we had an article. It was far right fight clubs. Yeah, 59 00:04:26,160 --> 00:04:32,800 the fight clubs. We've covered it a few times, but I found not necessarily interesting, but there's 60 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:39,440 definitely a disturbing rise of it, which is absolutely bizarre to me. So that's my update 61 00:04:39,440 --> 00:04:44,800 and where it took us today. Chelsea, I just have to let you know because I went down a whole while 62 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:53,040 you discussed this. There's a Wikipedia article on National Socialist Black Metal. This page has 110 63 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:59,840 citations. Oh my God. Sorry, 111 citations. And why black metal? And it references four different 64 00:04:59,840 --> 00:05:06,080 books. White Noise and Black Metal in Black Sun, Aryan Cult, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of 65 00:05:06,080 --> 00:05:12,480 Identity, Hail Loki, Hail Satan, Hail Hitler, Dark Side Assetrue, Satanism and Occult National 66 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:17,920 Socialism, Lords of Chaos, the Bloody Rise of Satanic Metal Underground, and I Am the Black 67 00:05:17,920 --> 00:05:23,120 Wizard, Multiplacity, Mysticism and Identity in Black Metal Music and Culture. And this just seems 68 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:29,200 like there's another Wikipedia article too. And it's just a list of NSBM bands. By Black Metal, 69 00:05:29,200 --> 00:05:35,200 this is bizarre. Yeah, part of it is the paganism, I think of it, and the fact that white supremacy 70 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:41,280 does lend itself to this type of music for some reason, just because heavy metal is kind of linked 71 00:05:41,280 --> 00:05:47,200 to white supremacy. Interesting. Don't know why, and the paganism is a big thing here, and especially 72 00:05:47,200 --> 00:05:53,600 in Europe, paganism's the huge thing behind it. It hit me off guard. I actually had no idea, but 73 00:05:53,600 --> 00:05:58,400 we are learning new things on an update, feeling like an update. And Chelsea, I am actually surprised 74 00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:04,160 that you're giving me info on Neo-Nazis that I didn't already know, because I tend to follow the 75 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:09,520 rise of this stuff fairly closely, and I had no idea about this. Yeah, there you go, and it's an old 76 00:06:09,520 --> 00:06:17,040 update. So who knows, there may be an NSBM concert coming your way called Let's Get Rid of the Non-Whites, 77 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:21,440 just because apparently they're pretty blatant with their naming of these things. 78 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:26,880 Yeah, probably don't go to it. It's best not to give them your money. Yeah, no, I probably wouldn't, 79 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:31,840 even if you like black metal. But in the meantime, you've got 48 hours. Don't let the existential 80 00:06:31,840 --> 00:06:38,960 dread of the implications of this story get you two down before then, because we've got Halloween 81 00:06:38,960 --> 00:06:43,920 episodes to get to. Hey, they're fun in a scary kind of way. Thank you, now I'm excited. In a different 82 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:57,840 scary kind of way. Okay, see you Friday. Anyhow, bye.